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There has been a lot of talk about RPD (royalty per download) of the various sites and it got me curious.  I normally only track RPD for my whole portfolio per month, but I decided to go back and calculate it per site for March. 

Here's the results:  Are the rest of you finding similar?

IS $1.13
SS    .55
DT  1.67
FOT 1.55
BigStock   .95
123   .81
CanStockPhoto 1.33

I've put highest earnings for last month as a comparison.

RPD                                                                      Highest Earnings
DT -   2.84                                                                        FOT
Fot -  1.60 (1 EL netting over 70$)                                     DT
IS -    1.30 (1 EL)                                                               IS
BigStock - 0.89                                                                         SS
123 - 0.73                                                                        BigStock
SS -   0.65 (9 ELs)                                                            123
                                                      

Here are my numbers:

IS - 1.28
SS - .69
DT - 1.62
BigStock - .76

Seems like my FT is way out of line with everyone else's.  

Here are mine: March, All-time, Earnings rank

123: 0.54, 0.70, #6
BigStock: 1.03, 1.08, #5
DT: 1.49, 1.16, #3
FT: 0.59, 0.81, #4
IS: 1.06, 1.08, #1
SS: 0.74, 0.39 (3 ELs), #2

(Edited to add earnings rank, since a high RPD is just part of the equation)

Interesting stats so far.  Looks like DT has pretty consistently high RPD compared to the others.

Gostwyck, you are right, I should have mentioned I am emerald on Fotolia so that will skew my RPD there.  

Of course that's why Serban keeps banging on about it, as if it is really important __ but really it isn't. What is far more important is revenue/image/month (RIM?!) i.e. how much income will said agency generate from a given portfolio per month. DT may be leading on RPD but is way behind the Top 3 on RIM.

My DT RPD is all over the place, although it's been around $.80 the last 2 months. If I were to guess, I'd think IS would be the clear winner because of the all vector sales. Well, excluding Graphic Leftovers, Veer and Clipartof. Hmm... I guess I may need a rule clarification, then? Also, do extended licenses count? Because SS seems to sell more of those than anyone else.

What he means is that if you have 1000 images at every agency the important thing is how much that agency brings you each month total, RPD is pointless if you only sell a few images on that site per month.

For microstock sites the most important factor as far as I'm concerned is the total nett amount I get from the agency in any given month, on macro agencies RPI is more relevant because you're selling less volume, microstock is a volume game so I consider RPI & RPD figures on microstock agencies to be less important that the MPR - Monthly Portfolio Return (sorry everyone else is making one up so I wanted my turn  )

Edited to add: I'm only referring to the figures I use to assess the viability of which agencies to spend time uploading to, the worth of RPI has a completely different meaning when it comes to research statistics, although factoring in whether or not you should go onto certain site forums and make "positive" comments is making true RPI assessment even harder 

I'm not sure that this is useful, but FWIW my RPD for March for IS was $3.71 - no extended licenses last month to skew the numbers.

If you adjust that to a 20% royalty rate it would be $2.12. I think that gives you an idea of what Vetta and exclusive image prices does to the totals.

True enough but the difference here is that FT is actually delivering on the volume thing __ but DT is not. Sure, my 'RPD' at DT has been steadily increasing but sales are slipping and revenue stagnant.

SS      0.43
123RF   1.35
FT      0.57
DT      0.81
IS      2.90
BS      0.50

Average   0.58

I should try to do better on IS cause it seems like they pay me most :-) On the other hand many subs on SS produce better result than few credit sales on IS :-) 

Here's mine for March 2010:

SS   0.55
IS   1.39
DT   0.90
FT   0.90
BigStock  1.2
123   0.58

Thanks for the links JoAnn.  I had missed this discussion - probably because I am not directly affected.  But ITLR we are all affected when the sites find subtle (and not so subtle) ways of lowering contributor percentages.